Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

Nationalist movements and campaigns against British rule in India culminating in independence and partition in 1947.

British Indian troops fired on a crowd at Amritsar in April 1919; events motivated Udham Singh's later campaign.

Gandhi's march to the sea against the British salt tax became a landmark of Indian civil disobedience.

Indian lawyer, anti-colonial leader, and principal advocate of satyagraha and nonviolent resistance.

Muslim League leader and founder of Pakistan.

Punjab city associated with the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Coastal settlement in Gujarat where Gandhi made salt on April 6, 1930.

The city where Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, and where his funeral procession took place.